Cultural Influence
The song is included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
The song was also used as the basis for the title of the 1993 film Dazed and Confused, which chronicled the lives of various American youths on their last day of high school in 1976. However, it is not found on the film's soundtrack. The film's director Richard Linklater appealed to Led Zeppelin band members to use some of their songs in the movie but, although Page agreed, Robert Plant refused.
The song is featured in the drama series Shabatot VeHagim, 2003 episode "Air Guitar" In the television show The Simpsons, an episode of Itchy & Scratchy (1993 "The Front") has the title "Dazed and Contused", an obvious pun on the song. It was also used again as a pun ("abraised and contused") in the 2006 episode "Bart Has Two Mommies" where Ned Flanders addresses himself as Ned Zeppelin. Chad Smith and various others can be heard listening to it in the Red Hot Chili Peppers documentary Funky Monks. In 2012, the song opened the last episode of season 5 of Californication where the main character Hank Moody was dreaming that he was in hell.
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